The Virtual Revolution
· Tim Burners Lee created the internet - he was English
· The Well - 1985
o Created in San Francisco by Stuart Brand
· Bill Gates – Founder of Microsoft
· Mark Zuckerburg – founder of Facebook
· Shawn Fanning – founder of Napster
o Sharing music illegally
o Changed music industry
o It was shut down in 2001
· Youtube – founded by Chad Hurley
o First video was posted in 2005
o Viewed more than 1 billion times a day
· Huffington Past – Founded by Arianna Huffington
o An aggregation site
o Beginning of a “hybrid future”
· Jimmy Wales – Founder of Wikipedia
· There are 14 million articles on Wikipedia
o They’re free to access
o 65 billion people use it a month
· Ordinary people can author and edit content
o Challenges authority – people power
§ Libertarianism/ counter culturalism
§ But how accurate is it?
· Al Gore
o Internet is an “empowering tool”
o Its “exciting and revolutionary”
· Stephen Fry
o It has “unbelievable power”
· 2 billion people are now online worldwide
· “Digital Divide”
o Digital haves/digital have not’s
· Quarter of the planet uses web
o 35 million people will log on a day
· 1 billion pounds a week are spent on the internet
· 5 million people uses internet dating website a week
· 40% of men use porn
· Email created in 1965
· Internet Explorer dominated 90% of the internet market
· Blogging allows people to self-express
· 130 million blogs created in 2002
· 18 million people read blogs
· No controlling authority
· Allows people to be free
· Threatens to subvert society
· Web – Easier to produce and share
· The internet revolution could be compared to the industrial revolution
· The internet mirrors a hierarchy in our world
o A counter revolution will inevitably follow
o Colonised by new elites
o No one can stop it
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